Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.